come up with

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come up with (third-person singular simple present comes up with, present participle coming up with, simple past came up with, past participle come up with)

1. (idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.

   I don't know the answer, but I might be able to come up with a good guess.

   How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?

   Shelly stalled while she tried to come up with a good response.

   The marketing department were tasked to come up with a catchy name for the new cereal bar.

   • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:

     And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...

2. To reach or overtake.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come,‎ up,‎ with.

• come up with the goods
• come up with snake eyes

• come up short

• come across
• come away with

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